I love Star Trek, hell I grew up watching it. I even love bad Star Trek. I can't justify spending $100+ per season on it though and I never will. Paramount needs to put the crack pipe down and get those seasons in the $49-$59 range. It's not worth what they're asking. At $49 bucks a season I'd probably own most of it by now.
An excellent point really. That's why I never bring up cancer or health issues when I bitch about smokers in public places. My argument is always much simpler.
That's totally correct so I really believe that everyone should pause and think about it like this. Is it really worth it to the rest of the world to initiate that over some stupid root servers and IP addresses?
Sometimes it's just a good idea to let the Wookie win. No he's not right but is it really worth the loss of your arms? Yeah you'll probably get to pull one of his off too but still....let the Wookie win.
My God, you drank the entire pitcher of Kool Aid didn't you?
Wow. I've never seen anyone do that before. A few cups at a time of course. Hey I've even done that from time to time. A whole pitcher though? In one chug?
You da man.
Seriously though, I like Eps 1-3 too so don't think I'm hating on the new and putting the old up on some kind of pedestal or anything. I just think that if you believe all that crap from Joseph Campbell then you're deceiving yourself. The real "Power of Myth" is all the profound sounding shit George has talked himself into thinking he really meant in the first place.
That was her friggin mission for crying out loud. She knew exactly where the ship was and Leia probably instructed the captain to come out of light speed as close to the planet as possible in order to facilitate the escape of the droid she gave the plans to. Hell she probably gave R2 the information he needed to put the escape pod down in the correct region of the planet to find Obi Wan.
The moment the author of this piece said "What are the odds" I wrote him off completely. Yes there were coincidences that the story relied upon. This wasn't one of them.
He's not knowledgable enough about the subject matter to speak (or rather "write") intelligently about it.
Just a minor point but to actually start the war you need to go to Washington. Just sitting here in Texas won't get it done.
Also on a side note not all of us here in Texas voted for or agree with the fucktard in the White House and Texas alone didn't elect him. There's a whole bunch of other red states that share the blame for that one.
If you were a steretypical Texan you would have simply said "Bullshit" and been done with it. I bet you're not even from Texas. You're probably from New Jersey or something. Stereotypical Texans are as polite as can be to ladies.
They'll drag a black man behind their pickup truck until he's dead sometimes but they rarely miss a chance to hold the door open for a lady. What's really odd is that from time to time they'll even pull over to change a tire for a black lady. Then they'll get back in their truck and finish re-telling (for the 3rd time) that "nigger joke" that was so funny. How completely fucked up that is completely escapes them much of the time.
It's hard to figure out. Thankfully they're getting fewer and further between everyday.
I bet out of that first million that were downloaded most were bought to watch on the computer. Most people aren't going to have a new video capable iPod right now but some of them might get one if the video looks good enough so they check it out by buying something. Probably a bunch of people just buy one to see what all the fuss is about and they don't even own an iPod.
They're two bucks and you can buy them by just clicking on a button. I think this is a good idea but all the million videos in 20 days is about is initial curiosity. In order to really launch this thing they need some content and they need it fast. There's really not much there when you look at it but then again who gives a shit about blowing two bucks? If you're shopping on iTunes then odds are good that you don't. I know I don't.
Once the content gets in there I'll be buying video from iTunes. That is assuming of course that the prices stay close to what I'm seeing right now. This fits in good with my desire to buy seasons worth of some shows on DVD but only a handful of episodes where other shows are concerned.
I look at South Park, Dead Like Me, and my Battlestar Galactica fix and I say "Buy the season on DVD". My wife wants Buffy the Vampire Slayer seasons 1-6 and DVD is the way to go.
I look at Star Trek Deep Space 9 and I say "Got to get me some DVD's.....HOLY SHIT CAN YOU BELIEVE WHAT PARAMOUNT WANTS FOR THAT? MIGHTY PROUD OF THE STAR TREK AREN'T WE GUYS?"
Then I think about it and there probably weren't 10 episodes of DS9 I really want anyway. Maybe 10 if I push it. 20 bucks for those 10 episodes and screw the rest of it because it wasn't all that good anyway? I'm in.
Of course IF Paramount ever lets them sell episodes of Star Trek (and flavor) on iTunes they'll probably demand that they sell for $9.99 each or some insane amount of money that will screw the whole deal up anyway.
Religon however is at it's very heart born out of ignorance. The ignorance of our ancestors thousands of years ago who flat out made shit up to explain what they didn't understand or feared. Tell a story to put your peoples minds at ease and two or three generations later it's the holy word of god. Bullshit is more like it. The people crowding into the church down the street from my house have more in common with ancient Greeks and Egyptians worshipping their make believe gods than they do with me. They're just praying to the current version of the lie. In two or three thousand years they'll be looked upon in the same light as well.
Religon is the true face of evil and Hell isn't eternal damnation. Hell is being surrounded bu other people and their relentless stupidity.
That's what I want to know. Where was the "second part" of the article where the guy dressed like The Punisher (except it's Microsoft Bob's face instead of a skull) showed up at each and every one of these spammers houses and killed them?
If you want to ignore the cure for Cancer that's being held back and stored in the warehouse next to the automobile engine that runs on sea water by the guy who really WAS on the grassy knoll then I guess that's your business but you need to open your eyes and see the black helicopters for what they are.
Which aliens by the way? Was it the skinny ones with the cold hands or the taco that craps ice cream?
Interesting. I've had one since the day it was released and mine looks fine. I've got maybe a couple of scratches on the thing but nothing too deep or noticable. My first reaction to reading this was that people need to learn to take better care of their shit and it's not Apples fault if they're incapable of it. In short just more typical whining from people who want something for nothing.
But hey, if you know ten people with this problem then maybe there is something to it. I see where Apple has sold a million plus Nanos so now I'm wondering how many are going to take part in the lawsuit.
You point me to a website full of the rights bullshit and claim it's evidence proving that your own bullshit is true.
You keep using this word "facts", I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's easier for you if they're all Nazis isn't it. That's ok, you hold on to that if you need to. In another two years the bad men will be voted out of office and this country can get to work fixing the damage that they've done to our country.
Oh jeez, go fuck yourself you condescending piece of shit.
I had no idea I was talking to one of the "College Know-it-all Hippies". If I'd seen this post before I responded to your other reply on this thread I wouldnt' have bothered. Nobody could talk sense to you and get through if you're spending your days worrying about Nazis "at the highest levels of our government".
You're good at insulting people. I'll give you that if nothing else. You're also an example of why the internet (yes the same "internet" on which the website you tossed up as proof of, well "something" resides) is useless for this sort of discussion. That would be the fact that irrational fucktards like you dominate any conversation or debate with the kind of crap you just wrote.
Go ahead and call me names. Tell me I don't know what I'm talking about if you like. It doesn't change the fact that I did not vote for George Bush, don't support his policies, think the war in Iraq was a terrible idea and horribly misguided, and find the US response to the "War on Terror" to be tragic and inept. Basically I probably support many of the things you yourself believe in when it comes to this subject.
You can't see that though because instead of being a rabid knee jerk monkey like yourself I can tell the difference between a very bad administration and Nazi Germany.
You're the equal and opposite of the nutjob right and at least as much of the problem as they are. I'd tell you to go die too but I don't really want you to die. I just want you to shut the fuck up and keep your paranoia and conspiracy theories to yourself.
The invasion of Iraq was not a "total Nazi-like maneuver". Come on, get a little bit real please. It wasn't a good idea in the least and I'd be crazy to deny that but it was hardly a move to create a "Greater America" that would last a thousand years.
If America and Americans felt that the people in Iraq were beneath them then why would they care what happened over there provided the oil stayed cheap? Really think about for a moment. As futile and misguided and just plain stupid as the Iraq invasion/occupation was what did it accomplish? We could be sitting back taking it easy buying cheap Oil from Saddam till the stuff ran out if we wanted to. That would be for a very long time since we would have allowed him to remain in Kuwait and probably even let him take Saudi Arabia too.
He could stuff mass graves with as many of these worthless arabs as he wanted for all we cared (In your scenario) just so long as he kept the price of oil down. We could do that, have no Americans killed trying to occupy that country, and still be able to topple his government/destroy his military at will.
"Americans" for all their faults do not see Iraqis as being beneath them. Not the majority of Americans I am certain. But I do completely agree with you about trying to be some kind of leaders of the world. I've been sick of that crap since I became old enough to be aware of it. I very much wish the US could or would return to simply being another nation among many. I'm sick to death of that crap and your entire last paragraph is exactly how I feel on this.
Very soon the current administration will be out of office. George W. Bush will not attempt to stay in office beyond his two terms and, if the opposing party tries very, very hard they will have little or no trouble putting a Democrat in office. Incidentally I expect none of them to end up in mass graves or held in prison camps.
Saying that the current regime in the US is a prototypical fascist movement today is something like calling North Korea a prototypical democratic movement because the majority of them woke up this morning and brushed their teeth. Sure it happens a lot in democracies too, that doesn't make it an early warning sign.
If you've studied Fascism at great length then I'm the fucking Dali Lama.
You make a few good points here but you lost me with the whole "Take the Nazi out of Amerika" bit. That just tells me you're bright but you don't have the first clue about real Nazis. If you really understood them then you wouldn't even think about drawing that comparison.
Sometimes I think this world needs another regime like that because so many have forgotten how bad they were. Then I come to my senses and realize that reading a million stupid statements like yours above is a great thing. It's good that you're ignorance is showing on a subject like this.
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I love Star Trek, hell I grew up watching it. I even love bad Star Trek. I can't justify spending $100+ per season on it though and I never will. Paramount needs to put the crack pipe down and get those seasons in the $49-$59 range. It's not worth what they're asking. At $49 bucks a season I'd probably own most of it by now.
An excellent point really. That's why I never bring up cancer or health issues when I bitch about smokers in public places. My argument is always much simpler.
That is of course the fact that smokers stink.
"Billions will die, it won't be pretty"
That's totally correct so I really believe that everyone should pause and think about it like this. Is it really worth it to the rest of the world to initiate that over some stupid root servers and IP addresses?
Sometimes it's just a good idea to let the Wookie win. No he's not right but is it really worth the loss of your arms? Yeah you'll probably get to pull one of his off too but still....let the Wookie win.
My God, you drank the entire pitcher of Kool Aid didn't you?
Wow. I've never seen anyone do that before. A few cups at a time of course. Hey I've even done that from time to time. A whole pitcher though? In one chug?
You da man.
Seriously though, I like Eps 1-3 too so don't think I'm hating on the new and putting the old up on some kind of pedestal or anything. I just think that if you believe all that crap from Joseph Campbell then you're deceiving yourself. The real "Power of Myth" is all the profound sounding shit George has talked himself into thinking he really meant in the first place.
Exactly.
That was her friggin mission for crying out loud. She knew exactly where the ship was and Leia probably instructed the captain to come out of light speed as close to the planet as possible in order to facilitate the escape of the droid she gave the plans to. Hell she probably gave R2 the information he needed to put the escape pod down in the correct region of the planet to find Obi Wan.
The moment the author of this piece said "What are the odds" I wrote him off completely. Yes there were coincidences that the story relied upon. This wasn't one of them.
He's not knowledgable enough about the subject matter to speak (or rather "write") intelligently about it.
What was so hard about picking up the intentional humor in that submission?
Before I even opened the link I thought it was pretty clear that he was joking about that and seeing the screenshots only confirmed that.
Fair enough!
And by the way...
Hook 'em Horns!
Longer than I've been alive? Little boy?
I'm a 40 year old Texan myself and I say you're full of "bullshit"
Upon reflection you sound like a "Sooner" to me.
Just a minor point but to actually start the war you need to go to Washington. Just sitting here in Texas won't get it done.
Also on a side note not all of us here in Texas voted for or agree with the fucktard in the White House and Texas alone didn't elect him. There's a whole bunch of other red states that share the blame for that one.
"Bullshit"
If you were a steretypical Texan you would have simply said "Bullshit" and been done with it. I bet you're not even from Texas. You're probably from New Jersey or something. Stereotypical Texans are as polite as can be to ladies.
They'll drag a black man behind their pickup truck until he's dead sometimes but they rarely miss a chance to hold the door open for a lady. What's really odd is that from time to time they'll even pull over to change a tire for a black lady. Then they'll get back in their truck and finish re-telling (for the 3rd time) that "nigger joke" that was so funny. How completely fucked up that is completely escapes them much of the time.
It's hard to figure out. Thankfully they're getting fewer and further between everyday.
I bet out of that first million that were downloaded most were bought to watch on the computer. Most people aren't going to have a new video capable iPod right now but some of them might get one if the video looks good enough so they check it out by buying something. Probably a bunch of people just buy one to see what all the fuss is about and they don't even own an iPod.
They're two bucks and you can buy them by just clicking on a button. I think this is a good idea but all the million videos in 20 days is about is initial curiosity. In order to really launch this thing they need some content and they need it fast. There's really not much there when you look at it but then again who gives a shit about blowing two bucks? If you're shopping on iTunes then odds are good that you don't. I know I don't.
Once the content gets in there I'll be buying video from iTunes. That is assuming of course that the prices stay close to what I'm seeing right now. This fits in good with my desire to buy seasons worth of some shows on DVD but only a handful of episodes where other shows are concerned.
I look at South Park, Dead Like Me, and my Battlestar Galactica fix and I say "Buy the season on DVD". My wife wants Buffy the Vampire Slayer seasons 1-6 and DVD is the way to go.
I look at Star Trek Deep Space 9 and I say "Got to get me some DVD's.....HOLY SHIT CAN YOU BELIEVE WHAT PARAMOUNT WANTS FOR THAT? MIGHTY PROUD OF THE STAR TREK AREN'T WE GUYS?"
Then I think about it and there probably weren't 10 episodes of DS9 I really want anyway. Maybe 10 if I push it. 20 bucks for those 10 episodes and screw the rest of it because it wasn't all that good anyway? I'm in.
Of course IF Paramount ever lets them sell episodes of Star Trek (and flavor) on iTunes they'll probably demand that they sell for $9.99 each or some insane amount of money that will screw the whole deal up anyway.
But now of course it's too late. You've caused me to shoot my morning Diet Coke out of my nose with laughter and dread.
This is going to be like the Tentacle Rape thing isn't it? This mental image is never going away.
Yes evolution has problems. No doubt about it.
Religon however is at it's very heart born out of ignorance. The ignorance of our ancestors thousands of years ago who flat out made shit up to explain what they didn't understand or feared. Tell a story to put your peoples minds at ease and two or three generations later it's the holy word of god. Bullshit is more like it. The people crowding into the church down the street from my house have more in common with ancient Greeks and Egyptians worshipping their make believe gods than they do with me. They're just praying to the current version of the lie. In two or three thousand years they'll be looked upon in the same light as well.
Religon is the true face of evil and Hell isn't eternal damnation. Hell is being surrounded bu other people and their relentless stupidity.
That's what I want to know. Where was the "second part" of the article where the guy dressed like The Punisher (except it's Microsoft Bob's face instead of a skull) showed up at each and every one of these spammers houses and killed them?
That would be newsworthy.
If you want to ignore the cure for Cancer that's being held back and stored in the warehouse next to the automobile engine that runs on sea water by the guy who really WAS on the grassy knoll then I guess that's your business but you need to open your eyes and see the black helicopters for what they are.
Which aliens by the way? Was it the skinny ones with the cold hands or the taco that craps ice cream?
Interesting. I've had one since the day it was released and mine looks fine. I've got maybe a couple of scratches on the thing but nothing too deep or noticable. My first reaction to reading this was that people need to learn to take better care of their shit and it's not Apples fault if they're incapable of it. In short just more typical whining from people who want something for nothing.
But hey, if you know ten people with this problem then maybe there is something to it. I see where Apple has sold a million plus Nanos so now I'm wondering how many are going to take part in the lawsuit.
No, it makes them "perminate" which is completely different from "permanent" and coincidentally is often confused with being "permanant"
Unless you're trying to make a profit in Soviet Russia with a Beowulf cluster of ways to spell that word.
Bullshit
You point me to a website full of the rights bullshit and claim it's evidence proving that your own bullshit is true.
You keep using this word "facts", I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's easier for you if they're all Nazis isn't it. That's ok, you hold on to that if you need to. In another two years the bad men will be voted out of office and this country can get to work fixing the damage that they've done to our country.
Oh jeez, go fuck yourself you condescending piece of shit.
I had no idea I was talking to one of the "College Know-it-all Hippies". If I'd seen this post before I responded to your other reply on this thread I wouldnt' have bothered. Nobody could talk sense to you and get through if you're spending your days worrying about Nazis "at the highest levels of our government".
Amusing and sad at the same time. Get help ok.
Bye now!
You're good at insulting people. I'll give you that if nothing else. You're also an example of why the internet (yes the same "internet" on which the website you tossed up as proof of, well "something" resides) is useless for this sort of discussion. That would be the fact that irrational fucktards like you dominate any conversation or debate with the kind of crap you just wrote.
Go ahead and call me names. Tell me I don't know what I'm talking about if you like. It doesn't change the fact that I did not vote for George Bush, don't support his policies, think the war in Iraq was a terrible idea and horribly misguided, and find the US response to the "War on Terror" to be tragic and inept. Basically I probably support many of the things you yourself believe in when it comes to this subject.
You can't see that though because instead of being a rabid knee jerk monkey like yourself I can tell the difference between a very bad administration and Nazi Germany.
You're the equal and opposite of the nutjob right and at least as much of the problem as they are. I'd tell you to go die too but I don't really want you to die. I just want you to shut the fuck up and keep your paranoia and conspiracy theories to yourself.
The invasion of Iraq was not a "total Nazi-like maneuver". Come on, get a little bit real please. It wasn't a good idea in the least and I'd be crazy to deny that but it was hardly a move to create a "Greater America" that would last a thousand years.
If America and Americans felt that the people in Iraq were beneath them then why would they care what happened over there provided the oil stayed cheap? Really think about for a moment. As futile and misguided and just plain stupid as the Iraq invasion/occupation was what did it accomplish? We could be sitting back taking it easy buying cheap Oil from Saddam till the stuff ran out if we wanted to. That would be for a very long time since we would have allowed him to remain in Kuwait and probably even let him take Saudi Arabia too.
He could stuff mass graves with as many of these worthless arabs as he wanted for all we cared (In your scenario) just so long as he kept the price of oil down. We could do that, have no Americans killed trying to occupy that country, and still be able to topple his government/destroy his military at will.
"Americans" for all their faults do not see Iraqis as being beneath them. Not the majority of Americans I am certain. But I do completely agree with you about trying to be some kind of leaders of the world. I've been sick of that crap since I became old enough to be aware of it. I very much wish the US could or would return to simply being another nation among many. I'm sick to death of that crap and your entire last paragraph is exactly how I feel on this.
Very soon the current administration will be out of office. George W. Bush will not attempt to stay in office beyond his two terms and, if the opposing party tries very, very hard they will have little or no trouble putting a Democrat in office. Incidentally I expect none of them to end up in mass graves or held in prison camps.
Saying that the current regime in the US is a prototypical fascist movement today is something like calling North Korea a prototypical democratic movement because the majority of them woke up this morning and brushed their teeth. Sure it happens a lot in democracies too, that doesn't make it an early warning sign.
If you've studied Fascism at great length then I'm the fucking Dali Lama.
You make a few good points here but you lost me with the whole "Take the Nazi out of Amerika" bit. That just tells me you're bright but you don't have the first clue about real Nazis. If you really understood them then you wouldn't even think about drawing that comparison.
Sometimes I think this world needs another regime like that because so many have forgotten how bad they were. Then I come to my senses and realize that reading a million stupid statements like yours above is a great thing. It's good that you're ignorance is showing on a subject like this.